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'73 New Yorker

I know it's not a two door, but you can't find a neglected body out here that isn't rotted away with the seats down to the springs, and cats living in it. I'd take it in, but I'm sort of the foster parent that can't stop... I've saved and I'm still driving worse, but they're still running, and I can't take all of them. Hell, I'm daily driving two obvious parts cars because they just keep going. I'll eventually end up with it, because it'll cost $140 in parts to fix the brakes, and put it back on the road for another ten years. Or it'll cost a thousand for somebody to tow it to their mechanic, and get the same job done. Then they'll take it to a body shop, get quoted $8,000 to fix the rust and dents, freak out and ditch it as soon as possible because the car isn't worth anything. I love big-ass C bodies because it's like driving a huge couch, and nobody will ever again be able to make a wafting 400+ ft/lb of torque living room that hauls eight at 120 mph.. They're so terrible by modern standards, and that's what makes them awesome in their time and place. Future generations need to have the option to understand machinery instead of appliances. All old cars need to be saved at this point, be they fast, slow, terrible, tiny, miserable, broken, or rusty. For every step forward we take, we lose another interesting artifact of automotive history. I like shitty old cars more than I like most people. They all have a story to tell and they can't lie about where they've been. Every one of them is a glimpse into a societal mindset from their place in history. Everything from a Fiat Cinquecento to a Dual Ghia explains the people who bought and drove them. It's an unwritten history in anthropology. By the way, I get long winded and self righteous when typing after drinking brown liquor. Save The Whales!
 
I love rants....ask my family about mine....:D

I knew you and 69 would be kindred spirits, never expected yu to be long lost brothers though. Finally someone who understands 69 and all his GTV6 and Alpha speak...;) :D
 
thats the kind of rant i get into...while i have little to no love for 4dr's..unless its a wagon..or maybe a lancia RF..i whole heartedly agree with you..but lets toss in the "arcane" the stuff no ones herd of..and the stuff they have..like yugo, lecar, lada and such.....its the sole reason ive fallen HARD for mini/micro cars and love my lloyds

i had a 73 fury 3 for a week..it was a parts car for an engine/trans..i regret that..but that was 91....the gut was flawless the trans was slipping...lil ole lady died..gold on gold 2dr...i still feel bad about crushing it

as far as barges go..yall can have em....i want my 71 caddy coupe 2dr back with its pre emission headed 472..ive yet to drive a "big" car that could feel and growl like that
 
Absolutely.. I really want to go to the microcar museum.. I think it's in Tennesse. The engineering behind those small packages can be brilliant. Looking up Lloyds now.
 
That build is pretty nuts, you've got great fabricating skills.. I noticed the last post was three years ago, is it finished?
 
life happened..as well as head trauma, brain injury marriage and "importing" my wife...it got shelved LITTERALY
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Sorry to hear all of that, except for the marriage. Congratulations there, unless it was a direct result of the brain injury.. or the brain injury was a direct result of the marriage, then not so much. At least its in dry storage, and out of the elements until it can be gotten to again. I half wish I had a warehouse or large storage facility to keep my junk in. On the other hand, having an open two car garage forces me to keep all of my cars running. If I stick one in the backyard because it breaks, I know it'll be ages before I get back to it and it'll be in far worse shape than when I put it there. On the other hand, I'd love to have a place to stick this New Yorker in the pages above until I can leisurely get to it and A: fix the brakes, and bomb it around town, or B: gut it for the 440, 727, and 8 3/4, make my shitty Fury a total sleeper, and fund the project by selling off all of the parts to Norwegians on the internet, (they eat that C-body shit up with a spoon). By the way, how do you make your living? (if you don't mind me asking). I've been thinking of opening my own shop, but I fear that I won't be able to keep us in the lifestyle that we've become accustomed to. Funding my projects will become cheaper, since parts and cars kind of just fall out of the sky if people know you specialize in archaic rusty crap. But, my guess is that beer consumption and going out for dinner occasionally will suffer, as well as having weekends, nights and holidays to drink beer, and go out for dinner occasionally.
 
"word of mouth" and its a "hobbie"..once its a buisness you better be making it hand over fist or taxes of said buisness will kill you..i looked into it enuf to get scared and go back to enjoying my hobbie of working on whatever may come my way..sometimes its hit n miss sometimes its long standing work that turns into good friends and YEARS of work..a good 7 year friend had me working on 4 cars for him..one of which was a ferarri..course he died not long ago..but i got all his toys

as for your beer problem..start brewing your own..my wife does

as for your "storage" issue..you need one of these
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If it was closer I'd buy it and stash it away for now. It would probably end up stripped down for parts, but it is a 4 door.
 
If it was closer, I'd buy it and strip it in a weekend. The husk would be gone Monday... body-wise, there's nothing worth keeping behind the fenders.
 
If it has power door locks, those solenoids are worth keeping... they've got loads of power, great for setting up power door openers!
 
If it was a '72 or older I'd hang on to the entire front clip, being it is by far the ugliest fuselage barge ever built it would all be scrap, once I picked the bones clean.
 
The car has been sold! To me... I'm a sucker. I don't care. The body on this is so much better than my Fury II sedan. I'll drive anything long enough to squeeze the last breath out of it.. We can't be so selective out here on the east coast.. Any mostly rust free body is worth saving, regardless of door count. Ten years ago people were throwing wagons away. Soon, we'll all regret scrapping the four doors, especially the hard tops. I just got an 80k mile 440/727 8 3/4 rear drivetrain with no cancer in the floors or trunk for $500. Save the Whales!
 
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